It’s the time of long summer sunsets. Here are three amber cocktails to sip as the sun sets over Manhattan.

Crimson Sunset at AVA Lounge

If you like your fruit muddled and your vodka infused, the Crimson Sunset is your cocktail.  Available on the rooftop of the Dream Hotel at the AVA Lounge, where you can relax high atop the city, the Crimson Sunset is a refreshing grapefruit flavored drink with the perfect balance of sweet and sour.

2 ½ ounces Absolut Ruby Red
Pink Grapefruit
Sugar
Club Soda

Pour Absolute Ruby Red over muddled pink grapefruit and sugar with a splash of grapefruit and club soda into high ball glass rimmed with sugar.

Visit www.dreamny.com.

Carefree at Ruby Foo's

The Carefree, available at Ruby Foo's, is Zen on the rocks. Pomegranate liqueur Pama fuses with the light fizzy flavor of Moscato d'Asti.

1 ounce Plum Wine
1 ounce Pama,
1 ounce Moscato d'Asti
½ ounce Orange Juice

Build in ice filled highball glass.   Garnish with pineapple fruit leaf and orange slice.

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10 Cane Trinidad Sunset

Bring a little island breeze to happy hour with the 10 Cane Trinidad Sunset, made with fresh squeezed fruit juices and 10 Cane Rum, pressed from Trinidadian sugar cane.

2 oz. 10 Cane Rum
splash Mango Syrup
splash Pineapple Juice
juice of 2 lime wedges
Drizzle of Grenadine Syrup

Drizzle grenadine inside the glass.  Pour 10 Cane Rum, mango syrup, pineapple juice, lime juice and grenadine in shaker, shake and strain into a chilled Martini Glass.

Edited by Patricia D. Sherman

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